Burning The Books Of Innovations, By Ibn Al-Qayyim

Chapter: Likewise There Is No Insurance To Be Paid For Burning And Destroying Deviant Books.

Al-Marwazee said, ‘I once said to Ahmad, ‘I borrowed a book that has evil and wicked things in it. Do you think I should tear it apart and burn it?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ So I burned it.’

The Prophet (saw) once saw a book in the hand of ‘Umar (ra) that he had transcribed from the Torah and which caused him to be fascinated at how much it conformed to the Quraan. So the face of the Messenger of Allaah became very angry to the point that’Umar went over to the fire and threw it in.

So how would it be if the Messenger of Allaah (saw) saw what was written after him from the books that oppose and contradict what is in the Quraan and the sunnah?! And we ask Allaah to aid us.

The Prophet (saw) commanded everyone that recorded anything from him apart from the Quraan to erase what they had written down. However, afterward, he allowed his sunnah to be written, but did not grant permission for anything besides that.

Therefore, all those books which contain opposition to the sunnah in them, have no permission to be written. Rather, they only have permission to be erased and destroyed, for there is not anything more harmful to the ummah than these books. The Companions burned all the copies of the mus-haf that contradicted the mus-haf of ‘Uthmaan out of fear that differing would spread amongst the ummah. So how would it be if they were to see the books of today that cause disunity and division amongst the ummah…?!”

Ibn Al-Qayyim then goes on to mention:

“The objective is for these books, which contain lies and innovations, to be annihilated and destroyed. Destroying these books takes a greater precedence than destroying musical instruments ad alcoholic containers, since their harm is much greater than the harm caused by these things (musical instruments etc.). And there is no insurance to be paid for their loss, just as there is no insurance to be paid for breaking the vessels in which alcohol is drunk out of.”

[At-Turuq Al-Hukmiyyah, p.282]

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And lol ameen wa iyyaak 2 ur dua -)
And btw, hows life, how u keeping? What’s new? How’s ur mum and dad doing? Health good? What about ur iron intake? Still taking pills for it?

Ah yes, understood. No problem then iA.
and shafaakAllaah, may Allaah heal u and likewise ur dad, ameen.
oh and how many kids u got? I remember u saying sth about expecting a kid, how did that go? Forgive me if I said sth wrong, as I remember u had some complications or sth. May Allaah give u pious offspring, ameen.

Also there is ikhtilaf whether minor shirk will be treated like a major sin or major shirk on yawm al qiyaamah.

Ibn tayniyyah says that even minor shirk will not be forgiven on yawm al qiyamah (if a person did not seek forgiveness for it), but other scholars say that Allaah may forgive minor shirk just as He may forgive major sins on yawm al qiyamah, even if the perpetrator did not seek forgiveness.